Four Foods, One Method
The same five measures, applied to each food from its own figures.
Open Your Saved Comparison- 01 Pinnacle Salmon & Pumpkin Swap Remove
- 02 Pinnacle Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato Swap Remove
- 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove
- 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove
| 01 Pinnacle Salmon & Pumpkin Swap Remove | 02 Pinnacle Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato Swap Remove | 03 Stella & Chewy's Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Swap Remove | 04 Darwin's Natural Pet Products Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Swap Remove | |
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| 01 Protein, Dry Matter Higher Is Better 26-32% dm reads typical mainstream. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin 32.2% | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato 27.8% | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 46.7% | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 57.7% Best in this row |
| 02 Carbohydrate Load, Dry Matter Lower Is Better Estimated, 6% ash assumed. Estimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin 38% 34.0% as fed Best in this row | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato 44% 40.0% as fed | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 13% 0.0% as fed | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 12% 0.0% as fed |
| 03 Named Proteins In The First Five Count of named animal proteins. The count matches any named animal word in the opening five ingredients, so it also counts animal fats and flavourings as proteins. It is shown because it is one of the five measured lines, but it is too rough to call a winner on. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin 3 of 5 | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato 2 of 5 | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 3 of 5 | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 5 of 5 |
| 04 Flagged Additives Level Lower Is Better Matched against the flag list. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin None | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato None | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb None | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None |
| 05 Brand Recall History Lower Is Better Manufacturer, not recipe. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin None Best in this row | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato None Best in this row | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 2 None in the last 3 years | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen None Best in this row |
| Starch, As Fed Estimated, not measured. It is what is left of the guaranteed analysis once protein, fat, fiber and moisture are taken out, with ash assumed at 6%. That leftover is mostly starch but also carries sugars and the fiber a crude-fiber test misses, so read it as a close estimate rather than an exact figure. Measured as fed, the same basis as the bag. | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin 34.0% | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato 40.0% | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb 0.0% | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen 0.0% |
| Kcal / Cup | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin 483 | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato 397 | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb -- | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen -- |
| First Five Ingredients | 01 Salmon & Pumpkin Salmon, Salmon Meal, Menhaden Fish Meal, Oatmeal, Garbanzo Beans | 02 Grain-Free Duck & Sweet Potato Duck, Duck Meal, Garbanzo Beans, Peas, Pea Flour | 03 Stella & Chewy’s Wild Red : Whole Prey Chicken & Lamb Cage-Free Chicken, Chicken Broth, Beef Broth, Pumpkin, Organic Carrots | 04 Darwin’s Natural Pet Products BioLogics Raw Chicken for Healthy Dogs Grain-Free Frozen Chicken, Chicken Necks (bone in), Chicken Gizzards, Chicken Liver, Chicken Hearts |
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Every figure here is the food's own. Protein and carbohydrate are converted to dry matter so foods of different moisture can be set beside each other; starch is estimated from the guaranteed analysis with ash assumed at 6.0%, and the recall record belongs to the manufacturer rather than to the recipe. Two rows are printed but never marked: the named-protein count, because the detection behind it is too rough to call a winner on, and calories, because neither more nor fewer is better without knowing the dog.
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